If it is a lion and a tiger fighting, and a leopard watching, then it will naturally feel that these two beast kings are cautious and aggressive, and they are left to study, what else can they find out? But if it falls in the eyes of the beast, it must be flawed everywhere, and there are problems everywhere.

    Zhou Yi is like a mythical beast, Old Man Hong and the little white ape Yuan Gorilla are lion tigers, he wants to find something wrong with it, that is a matter of minutes, but he is a little unbearable in his heart, and he is unwilling to let Lao Maozi see the Chinese people fighting in the nest, and then preach the theory of 'one person becomes a dragon, three people become an insect'.

    But Yuan Gorilla treats him as a mallet, so what else can he say?

    "Hehe, boy, I'm trying to let you find fault, but I'm afraid you won't find it." ”

    Yuan Gorilla is very proud, and soon the French Wine and Food Expo will be held, and he Chef Yuan is also registered. This competition is full of chefs from all over the world, and his background is still a little worse, as long as today's things are operated well, it won't take long for them to spread all over Paris, and he can be regarded as taking advantage of the situation to fight, isn't this a good thing for a 'Sister Lin' to fall from the sky?

    "Okay, since that's the case, then you're welcome. ”

    Zhou Yi picked up the spoon, slowly scooped a spoonful of snake soup into his mouth, just rolled it twice on his tongue, put down the spoon, nodded and said, "It's really good." If Master Yuan doesn't say it, I will still be the apprentice of the 'Snake King', and this snake soup can be regarded as the ultimate by you. ”

     "Xiao Zhou, do you understand what you eat? This is all to the extreme, I still have to kowtow to my old man?"

    Old man Hong had a bitter face. The heart said that this is really better than hearing and seeing, thanks to your senior brother and brother have praised you to the sky, what do you say that your kid has unparalleled cooking skills, and he also brews good wine, it seems that Lao Ye has also learned to falsely advertise, isn't this a pit?

    "Haha, okay! I actually know the benefits of this soup," Yuan Gorilla was very proud when he heard Zhou Yi's words.

    "Hehe, snake soup is different from meat soup: snake meat is originally tender, and it has been boiled for a long time. It is inevitable that it will be old and hard, and the cooking time is short, and the nutrients in the snake meat cannot be forced out. So make snake soup. Chefs generally cut the snake meat into thin strips or dices first, and pay attention to the heat when boiling, so this soup is also known as the 'world's kitchen base', which means that a soup has to test the chef's selection of materials, knife skills, fire control and other skills, and the basic skills are not good."

    "Huh? But you're talking about all these things in generalities, and what else?"

    Yuan Scarlet glanced at Zhou Yi with a smile, and said in his heart that buddy can't help it, blame you for not coming with this stubborn old man, you just pat my ass again, and you have to be the green leaf that strengthens my momentum today.

    "The most difficult part of this snake soup is to use a knife"

    It is not easy to convince a celebrity chef like Yuan Gorilla, and Zhou Yi is not in a hurry. Just said: "To make the snake soup just right, in fact, it is not to cut the snake meat into shreds and dices, but to cut the snake meat into uniform slices, and the thickness of each slice must be controlled at about five millimeters. It's hard to blend with the soup. Master Yuan, that's what you said, right?"

    "You know that, too?"

    It is in the hands of Cantonese celebrity chefs, the snake soup method is also varied, each with its own mysteries, just when it is sliced or diced or shredded, there is quite a debate, and cutting five mm thin slices is the secret of Hou Junjian, the 'Hou Wang'. The reason is that the snake has a cartilage that penetrates the whole body, once the bone is removed, the meat is rotten, and it is necessary to cut it into thick and consistent meat slices without bone, which requires excellent knife skills and techniques.

    "Of course I know this, but it's a pity"

    Zhou Yi shook his head with a smile and said, "Manpower is sometimes exhausted. Although Master Yuan is a famous teacher and a first-class knife worker, he still has not reached the level of true perfection. ”

     "Xiao Zhou, your words are becoming more and more subtle, even my old man can't understand it"

    Zhou Yi praised Yuan Yi first, saying that this snake soup was done by him to the extreme, but at this time he said that he was not perfect, not to mention that the diners laughed secretly, feeling that this young man was not very reliable in speaking, and even the old man Hong shook his head again and again.

    "Boy, you keep talking"

    Yuan Yao's face changed slightly, but he just urged Zhou Yikuai to say.

    "The fishy flesh of the snake is not in its flesh, not in its blood, but in its bones!

    Zhou Yi smiled and said: "However, Master Yuan's soup does not appear in the soup of big ingredients and wine, which means that you have a unique knife technique in this vein, and you have avoided the cartilage of the snake body as much as possible, so you will operate like this, right?"

    "you"

    Yuan Gorilla's face suddenly changed. When making snake soup, it is actually very important to slice or shred and dice, and his master Hou Junjian once said that it is necessary to make snake soup nutritious and nourishing. The degree of not being old and tender, it is necessary to slice it with a straight knife along the snake body, because only in this way can the knife be ensured that the natural texture of the snake meat and the density of the meat are not destroyed, and the nutrients of the snake meat can be released more evenly when cooking the soup, and whether it is diced or shredded, it is actually a kind of destruction of the natural texture of the snake meat

    This secret is actually not a secret, and many chefs understand it, but there are few people who can really do it. Even his master has been studying for a long time, and he can master the ** success with his extraordinary talent, he is the most talented among the disciples of the 'Monkey King', but he has only mastered seventy percent, and he still can't avoid the snake cartilage 100%, which will also make the soup produce a fishy smell. It's just that he has another way to make up for it, and ordinary people and even gourmets can't eat it.

    Now I listen to Zhou Yi talk about the Tao, does this kid also understand the master's unique knife technique?

    "You're using the ring knife method, right?"

    Zhou Yi smiled slightly: "This knife technique is not bad, but it's a pity that people are not machines, or no matter how subtle the knife technique is, as long as the heart is still beating, the hand will tremble." Even trained chefs are no exception. When I say that Master Yuan has done the best, I mean that when you made this pot of snake soup, you not only showed first-class fire control kung fu. The sword technique used has reached the peak of your own, and if I am not mistaken, you should have achieved seventy percent, although it will also touch the cartilage of the snake's body. But it will not leak too much fishy smell, the most rare thing is that you will make up for the deficiency with your heart, so it is considered to have reached your extreme, but unfortunately your ultimate is not equal to real perfection. ”

    "This young man is amazing, he seems to be very expert"

    Zhou Yi's voice was not high, but the diners on the second floor were listening attentively, and there was silence upstairs at the moment, and his words were suddenly heard clearly by everyone. These people are also masters who can eat, and they listened to Zhou Yi's words. Thinking back to the snake soup I once drank, I feel that it is really so, and now that I think about it, the snake soup I drank just now seems to be really a little fishy?

    Old man Hong came to his senses, patted Zhou Yi's shoulder and said, "Xiao Zhou." What kind of cheating methods did he use to make up for it? You have to tell me carefully, Yuan boy, do you know how powerful you are this time?"

    "Master Hong, this is not a means of cheating, but the delicate intentions of the chef"

    Zhou Yi said with a smile: "Master Yuan refuses to use big ingredients, and he wants to eliminate the natural fishy flesh in this snake soup." But did you use the hot spring water of Tianchi in Changbai Mountain?"

    "Mr. Zhou, can you even eat this?"

    Yuan Gorilla was really surprised this time, and he didn't dare to call him a boy, so he opened his mouth and called Mr.

    "Hehe, the snake of Changbai Mountain is paired with the Tianchi hot spring water of Changbai Mountain, you can be regarded as the original soup and original food." ”

    Zhou Yi stirred the bowl with a spoon, sniffed it gently, and nodded: "It's really right, this is Tianchi hot spring water." The hot springs of Changbai Mountain are originally the hot veins of the earth's center, with minerals based on sulfur, but the top of Changbai Mountain is covered with snow all the year round, and there is a Taoist saying that the smell of sulfur is washed away, leaving only the essence; this substance can dilute the fishy flesh of the snake itself, and boiling snake soup with this water is much better than using any big liquor."

    "But this water alone is not enough, in order to completely eliminate the fishy smell, Master Yuan should also use herbs such as He Shou Wu and Angelica to feed the snake. These snakes ate the medicinal herbs, and the fishy smell in the bones was removed, and this set of internal and external cultivation methods just made up for the lack of your knife work, so this soup has reached the first-class level, but the cost is higher."

    Speaking of this, Zhou Yi laughed again: "Master Yuan sold these soups at a fair price in order to gamble with Hong Ye, I'm afraid he will lose a lot of money, right?"

    The culinary sub-profession in the all-round idler system is different, not only can turn decay into magic, but also turn the base ~ Because of the anti-heaven skills of green ingredients, but also can identify all kinds of ingredients and even water sources, so Zhou Yi only needs to taste it, you can conclude that the water used for cooking soup is not produced in France, but from the long daytime pool hot spring!

    This is amazing, Yuan Gorilla was stunned on the spot, and he was speechless for a long time, and he regretted it in his heart.

     knew this was the case, and if he was killed, he wouldn't let Zhou Yi open his mouth to comment?

    "Mr. Zhou, don't say it, don't say it"

    Yuan Gordon rubbed his hands anxiously, and his head was full of sweat.

    "Haha, Yuan boy, are you admitting defeat? ”

      The accounts in June are fast. Old man Hong's beating is really not good, what is it called repaying grievances with virtue? In his place, he is all floating clouds, he is a person who will repay his face, and he is not ready to save face for Yuan Gorilla at all.

    "Me"

    Although Yuan Gorilla is arrogant, he is a little good, and he really admires it when he sees someone who is really capable, so he wanted to admit defeat at that time. But he looked at Zhou Yi, rolled his eyes, and suddenly said, "Wait a minute, what Mr. Zhou said is indeed right." I admit it too. But when it comes down to it, do it, Mr. Zhou, can you make the perfect snake soup? If you can do it, let alone let me throw my five bodies to the ground, and make all six bodies complete!"

    "Well, you're still not convinced? Six-body? Don't be a child," Old Man Hong narrowed his eyes and laughed loudly, what he said was very ambiguous.

    Chinese diners listened to this. Immediately burst into laughter, some foreigners didn't understand, and asked tightly: "Oh." Six-body, what is six-body, isn't it all five-body throwing to the ground in Chinese idioms?

    Zhou Yiyi hurriedly stopped, otherwise sooner or later he would have to sweep ~ Huang Ban to summon him, so he took Yuan Yao's words and said: "I don't have to do it, right?

    "No, no, no, Mr. Zhou, don't be polite, meeting friends with food is also a diligent rule." Yuan Gorilla has to meet a master today, he must ask for advice, if Mr. Zhou refuses to advise. I'm not going to let you go. ”

    He has been obsessed with vegetables all his life, how can he let Zhou Yi go like this?

    "Master Yuan, you are"

    Zhou Yi couldn't help but smile bitterly. It seems that you still have to be honest, you just threw Henry into the pit, and now you have begun to suffer retribution before you see the effect. first met an old man Hong who didn't cultivate himself, and pulled himself into the water for some reason, and now he met a very persistent little white ape, who actually played tricks on himself in public, what is this called?

    "Okay, then Master Yuan will take me to the back kitchen." I'll make snake soup and leave" Zhou Yi glanced at the old man Hong and said, "Please ask Master Yuan to get this old gentleman something delicious, he is here to rub my rice today." ”

    "Don't Xiao Zhou, don't eat too much, I'll go to the back kitchen with you, open your eyes, and see your skills." As soon as the old man Hong heard it, his old friend was in front of him to praise Zhou Yi's sky, if he didn't see Zhou Yi's craftsmanship with his own eyes, it would be blind to death

    "Hey, Master Yuan, isn't this okay?, this Mr. Zhou said it so well, it aroused our curiosity, and we also want to see Master Zhou's craftsmanship."

     "Yes, we're all regular guests of Tiangang Tower, you can't do that." If you want me to say, just bring all the kitchen utensils and ingredients here, let Mr. Zhou show his skills in public, and we will also learn and learn, and go home to eat snake soup for his wife. ”

    Old man Hong shouted, and the diners also shouted, seeing that everyone wanted to learn from Zhou Yi, and even used the means of 'lady diplomacy'

    "Mr. Zhou, you see" Yuan Gorilla is also a little embarrassed.

    "Hehe, that's good here, I don't want to go to the back kitchen." ”

    Although Zhou Yi has never officially been a cook, he has also heard some rules from Zhang Zhao. This back kitchen is not easy to enter, once a foreign chef enters the back kitchen, he is either a good friend, and he can't talk to Yuan Gorilla, then he becomes a good friend?

      changed to cook here the meaning is completely different, even if this is the addiction of diners, many restaurants have this special service, he can attack and retreat, come and go calmly.

    "Okay, then it's up to Mr. Zhou." ”

    Yuan Gordon excitedly ordered, not long after a stove, pots, and dishes in the back kitchen were set up on the second floor, but there were some problems with the ingredients, Yuan Gorilla was angry with the old man Hong just now, and he used up all the snakes at once, and even the hot spring water of Tianchi in Changbai Mountain, which was specially airlifted, was gone, and there was a five-flowered python left in the snake cage in the back kitchen!

     "Mr. Zhou, that's all there is left with this python, do you think you can use it?"

    Although Yuan Gorilla admired Zhou Yi in his heart, he was still very unwilling to lose to a young man, and he went out to buy a local one without a snake, which was better than getting a big python, but he didn't take the initiative to speak, and asked Zhou Yi to export his request, don't be in the limelight of this young man.

    "Python?"

     Snakes are already fishy, pythons are even fishier, not to mention that this is not a water python, but a five-flower mountain python?

     So Zhou Yi knew at a glance that this was Yuan Gorilla testing himself, or that he had given himself an almost unsolvable problem, and couldn't help but feel a little competitive, and said with a slight smile: "Okay, Master Yuan is going to test my kung fu, then I'll use this five-flower python to make pot snake soup." With that, he walked towards the snake cage.

    Yuan Yao's face changed: "Mr. Zhou, this is a real wild python, with a fierce temperament, let's let the snake case kill, and then you can do it when he goes to the python head."

    Dou Qi, he doesn't want to cause a life lawsuit, this five-flowered python is full of bowl mouth thickness, open its mouth can swallow a little goat, the chef is also risky to kill it, or the snake case that specializes in killing snakes is more experienced.

     "No, most of the pythons killed in the snake case will be shocked, and the python meat will not be able to do it well, so I'll do it myself." ”

    Zhou Yi walked to the python cage and said to the snake case: "Open." ”

     "Mr. Zhou, this python has been hungry for more than half a month, and now it is very fierce" The snake case is afraid that Zhou Yi will not know how powerful, he killed this python first and then did it, otherwise it will be very troublesome, this young man actually asked him to open the cage directly, so he was not afraid of being swallowed by the python?

    "Don't worry, open the cage." ”

    "Okay, but you have to be careful. ”

    The snake case opened the lock on the python cage door, stood far away and hooked the door with an iron hook, I didn't want the cage door to just open, it was a gust of scarlet wind, this five-flower mountain python turned into a black line, flew out, and rolled towards Zhou Yi.

    This python is really hungry, and when it comes up, it wants to strangle Zhou Yi's bones, and then swallow him.

    "Okay, it's a wild python, it's the best ingredient!"

    Zhou Yi not only did not panic, but praised it even again, such a vigorous little python is the best tonic, and he can be regarded as a good mouth today.

    "Smack!"

    Before his words fell, the five-flower python had already arrived in front of him, but he twisted his body and pulled it hard with a python tail. According to the procedure of this python looking for food on weekdays, one draw, one roll and one swallow is done, and with this tail, it can knock a calf unconscious, let alone such a thin little person

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